Living that far away from your family that you don’t see them on Christmas could also mean that you have to prepare the traditional Christmas food on your own if you want to eat it. My husband wanted to eat goose or duck, dumplings and red gabbage on Christmas. Since we are just two people a goose would be a little bit too much if we don’t want to eat that until Christian’s birthday (in January). So we decided to make a duck. It was kind of a slope duck, one leg was missing and after all the cooking it was soo small. We thought it would last for two meals… not yet decided what we eat tomorrow night :laugh_tb: We also made the dumplings but my hubby wasn’t happy with it, the recipe is called “green dumplings” but our’s were gray but they tasted good, like dumplings :wink_wp: I made some raw red gabbage salad. Most of the people would make cooked red gabbage for this kind of meal but I don’t like cooked red gabbage at all (but I like the purple colour :laugh_tb:)

Frau Blaseblog has again a Wednesday event for which I have an idea: “goals 2009”

The last years I didn’t have any goals or resolutions for the New Year and even if I had some I didn’t tell anybody because what I don’t tell you can’t tell me if I were not successful :wink_wp: Now I devide in goals and resolutions.

My goals for 2009 are

the TOEFL test: if the application for permanent resident will be successful I want to start taking bookkeeping and accounting classes asap. Since I’m not a native speaker I have to have that test and it would be more time consuming when I start this test when I could start the classes.

Level 1 of the Master Spinner class. I have the papers for the distance class and I already started (more about it in another blog post later)

Re-building my closet: For this I need a new sewing machine because I think it wouldn’t be very practical to knit everything in your closet. I would like to use all the nice fabrics that I shipped 7500km over the ocean (note for myself: don’t hesitate, cut!)

Resolutions are for me all the small things which are sometimes not less important but I won’t tell you that. Even my husband doesn’t know my resolutions :wink_wp:

The mystery about the color theme of our christmas tree wasn’t a very hard one :happy_tb: Black & purple and black & white are also combinations I can image but I can’t remember seeing any purple ornaments. Actually they also had black lights at IKEA but if you would turn it on it’s only the ugly orange from street lights at night. That’s why I decided for the red ones.